Citing OER for Articulated Courses

Reference Guide for Citing Open Educational Resources (OER) on the Course Outline of Record (COR)

04/01/2021 Imperial Valley College OER and Curriculum Committee

OER Textbook Articulation Notes:

•  The UC and CSU welcome the use of online texts and other Open Educational Resources (OERs), so long as the resource is a stable, bona fide textbook, and not just a collection of links to lecture notes or other web pages. We also recommend keeping at least one traditional textbook (commonly accepted in the field) on the COR.

•  CSU and UC campus departments consider the content of textbooks when reviewing course-to-course articulation proposals and Course Outlines of Record (CORs) from the California Community Colleges.

•  OER materials in the textbook section of the COR must include a publication date and a revision date (if appropriate). To meet articulation requirements, both online and traditional texts must be dated within seven years for most course submissions.

•  A general statement citing OER equivalent resources does not meet the textbook requirement for articulation.

OER Textbook Citation Requirements for the “Textbook” section of the COR:

1.  Author(s) and/or Compiler(s) (last name first)

2. Title

3. Edition or version (if beyond 1st)

4. Publisher, publication year or revision date

5. ISBN and/or URL. License.

Examples:

Dillon, Dave. Editor, Curator, Compiler. Blueprint for Success in College and Career. Version 1.3. Rebus Community, 2018. ISBN 9781989014042, http://press.rebus.community/blueprint2/. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. 

OpenStax College. Introduction to Psychology 2e. OpenStax, 2020 (web version last updated January 7, 2021). ISBN-13: 978-1-951693-23-7, https://openstax.org/details/books/psychology-2e. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Gordon, Elizabeth. Chemistry and Global Awareness. LibreTexts, 2021 (last updated March 15, 2021). https://chem.libretexts.org/Courses/Furman_University/CHM101%3A_Chemistry_and_Global_ Awareness_(Gordon).  Licensed under CC BY NC SA 4.0.

OERs as Supplemental Material:

•  The following electronic teaching materials would not be adequate to meet the requirements of articulation and transfer as a textbook, but could be cited in the supplemental readings sections of the COR:

  • Faculty course notes made available on a website

  • A collection of scholarly journal articles available online